Work only allowed me to spend one day at SEMA this year so I tried to get in as much as I could. Traffic and lack of parking stole the first hour of my day. We finally resorted to parking in one of the downtown casinos and taking the monorail. Which was kind of cool because the unloading platform was very high and you could see all the outside displays which allowed me to see the Toyo booth and Gary's new car being displayed on a trailer at a 45 degree angle. Very cool but it would have looked cooler had it been with the rest of FFR team. After seeing Gary's new car my first priority was to find the FFR booth. Just had to work my way through about a million people to get there. Once there, I was hoping to see my 4th real life GTM. Not to be this year. Just a GTM frame on display. That's OK because I was really there for another reason. I wanted to give Dave something from all us GTM guys as a token of our appreciation. I hope everyone agrees with me when I say that the GTM project has taught me a lot about who I am. Taught me some great skills. And most of all, introduced me to a great community of like minded people. So I gave Dave one of my models painted like the gen 1 poster. On the bottom of the model was a sticker with a place for all the 2013 SEMA GTM owners to sign their name and give Dave a fun reminder of SEMA 2013. He very graciously accepted and we took this picture.
Then we walked the rest of the show until 5:00 when it was time to head back to the mono rail. Wish I could see it all but such is not the case. Maybe next year.
Then at 7:30 we met with the other GTM owners and one future builder from Canada. Food was excellent and dinner conversation was lively. Everything from build histories to what booth had the hottest body in it was discussed. It was great to finally get to meet the people I have been talking to on the forums for the last 4 years. Just about the time I start to think that the GTM has given all it has to give, something like this comes along and proves me wrong. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to dinner and share.
Steve